The Agricultural Productivity Gap *

Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E.

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“…Gollin, Lagakos, and Waugh (2014) control for various other factors and confirm that Africa’s agricultural workers have significantly lower productivity than non-agricultural workers. This is consistent with Timmer (2009) and many other assessments, reflecting Africa’s delayed demographic and structural transformations that leaves rising numbers of African workers no choice but to try to feed themselves using limited resources with a declining area of land per worker.…”

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Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts

Masters

Rosenblum²,

Alemu

2018

The Journal of Development Studies

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This paper uses a Preston Curve approach to test for changes over time in agriculture, nutrition and food policy, comparing national averages in Africa and elsewhere at each level of national income per capita from the 1990s to the 2010s. Our statistical tests and data visualisations reveal that, at each level of income, African countries have faster rural population growth, a larger share of workers in agriculture and lower agricultural labour productivity than countries elsewhere, with no significant shift in these patterns from the 1990s to the 2010s. In contrast, there have been structural shifts towards less child stunting everywhere, and towards more adult obesity in high-income countries. The overall pattern of African governments’ food policies and government expenditures have not shifted, however, as they continue price interventions and low investment levels characteristic of low-income countries around the world.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts

Masters

Rosenblum²,

Alemu

2018

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…For example differences in hours worked or human capital per worker could be driving the observed productivity gaps. However, in a recent paper Gollin et al (2012) use micro data to take into account sectoral differences in hours worked and human capital as well as alternative measures of sectoral income and they still find large differences in productivity between agriculture and other sectors of the economy. The agricultural productivity gaps for Sub-Saharan…”

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What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?

McMillan¹,

Harttgen²

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract: We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing and services. These declines have been more rapid in countries where the initial share of the labor force engaged in agriculture is the highest and where commodity price increases have been accompanied by improvements in the quality of governance. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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“…Given that large productivity gaps exist between agriculture and non-agriculture in Africa, and between urban and rural labourers, the benefits for productivity growth from reallocation of farmers out of agriculture will be substantial (see also Gollin et al, 2014). Moreover as Christiaensen and Naudé (2015) point out, growing urbanization, rising incomes, and expectations of higher food and energy prices in future imply a large and localized market for agricultural products that can benefit the entire agrifood industry in Africa is productivity can be improved.…”

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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Naudé

2016

Agrekon

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African FarmersIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap *

Cited by 552 publications

References 57 publications

Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts

Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts

What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?

Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

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